Ofcom has since announced that phone providers will be banned from charging for caller display facilities from 1 October 2018.

Donna Moore, head of scam prevention at TalkTalk, said: “Protecting our customers is incredibly important to us and we remain committed to reducing the amount of time our customers spend dealing with unwanted calls.

“We’ve developed Check and Report to empower customers by giving them a simple way to defend themselves against unwanted nuisance, sales, scam and silent calls.”